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You can no longer browse open source code on GitHub without logging in first (github.com)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I can reliably trigger rate limiting by rapidly switching between files. Sometimes it's after looking at 10 files, sometimes up to 30. At any rate, it's not something a regular user would do (and at that point, why not just clone the repo?), and the rate limiting clears in less than a minute. It's really no worse than having to deal with Anubis-chan.

People just love to freak out, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I was able to duplicate this with some semi-rapid poking around in files which is not uncommon behavior when I am looking at a new project. If I didn't use Gibhub for work, there is little chance I'd be logged in most of the time and this would definitely affect me, I am surprised by people defending this crap.